FAQ’s

How Can I use showers and toilets when traveling with a wheelchair and in hotels?

Wheelable is a travel toilet and shower chair that only takes a moment to unfold, also by a person sitting in a wheelchair and even by using just one hand. Once unfolded, it is very easy to move over to it thanks to its unique wheels, which are located below the seat height. This allows switching chairs to Wheelable without having to skip over the drive wheel. For use as a toilet chair it can be reversed over a toilet seat, or used as a shower chair for showering. The special design and wheel arrangement of this portable shower chair allow maneuvering in especially narrow spaces and above a regular toilet bowl, which, unlike accessible toilets, has not been distanced from the wall.

How do I send Wheelable Commode and Shower Chair in a plain?

You need to buy the Carrying Case Accessory. You fold it inside this Carrying Case and send it with all your baggage.

How can I take shower safely with my wheelchair?

Wheelable is a safe and comfortable portable travel shower chair designed mainly for use in bathrooms and toilets, which have not been made accessible for the disabled. It allows safe passage from another room into the bathroom, even in a narrow space that was not made accessible for the disabled. Dus it maintains the user’s safety and prevents the need to move from one chair to another over wet floor.

Can I travel abroad with a Wheelable?

The Wheelable folding shower and toilet chair is designed for simple and easy folding into a carrying mode, making it suitable for use as a travel chair. You can watch an instruction video showing the folding and opening of Wheelable on the company's YouTube channel and by following a link on the company website

Can a wheelchair be water resistant?

Wheelable is made of glass-fibers reinforced nylon, allowing it to be safely used in toilets and bathrooms. All metal parts are made of stainless steel and are resistant to water. The parts of the product are designed to prevent water from accumulating on it, and it can be drained and dried easily in order to be able ot fold and pack it quickly.

How can Wheelable give me more independence?

Wheelable is a lightweight shower chair that allows for greater independence. The only toilet and shower wheelchair that can be folded and unfolded in a moment, allowing for use in inaccessible places and particularly narrow spaces. With this travel commode chair you will be able to get into particularly narrow elevators, book a regular room in a hotel, and stay for the night with friends and relatives who do not have accessible toilets.

What kind of wheelchair is suitable for temporarily handicapped/injured people?

Wheelable is designed specifically for people with temporary injuries, and it is one of the only portable shower chairs that allows independent use in non-accessible toilet cubicles, non-accessible bathrooms, and particularly narrow spaces such as inaccessible homes, hallways, workplaces and lifts. Wheelable serves as a folding toilet and shower chair for people who did not modify their homes for using a wheelchair, and solves a real problem for people with temporary disabilities who have no reason to invest in making their homes accessible to wheelchairs.

Where can I buy lightweight folding wheelchairs for travelling?

You have to find Wheelable Distributor in your country. if you don't, let us know and we will forward you.

Which Commode and Shower Chair can give me mobile freedom and no need for escort?

Wheelable has unique drive wheels, located at the front instead of at the rear, and is therefore one of the only travel commodes in the world that can be used to access inaccessible toilets independently and unaccompanied. The easy maneuvering of this travel commode and the possibility to reverse it back over the toilet seat, even when the toilet bowl is not placed away from the wall, as is customary in accessible toilets, enable the disabled person to manage on his own and without an escort also in toilets that were not adapted to a disabled person in a wheelchair.

What implement should a wheelchair have in order to use toilets in public restaurant?

When public toilets and bathrooms are not made accessible for the disabled, there are two main problems; spaces that are too narrow for passage and too small to maneuver the wheelchair, and toilet bowls and seats that are too close to the back wall and sometimes also to the side walls. Wheelable is a toilet wheelchair that is suitable for inaccessible rest rooms thanks to its drive wheels set, which are mounted the other way around, and drive wheels of unique size that are located below the seat height. These allow for a much better maneuvering capabilty than normal wheelchairs. Wheelable can be reversed over a toilet seat until the hole in the chair is just above it, even if the toilet seat is not placed away from the wall.